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deLfv Wv''r."lt' ■^'''^'^- .^ ^«^t^-.li^e shrub, with numerous erect branches, 

 rarX\;n 7' ^ ' sometimes being stellate. Leaves linear, or nearly so 



rarely broader, and nearly flat, almost sessile, seldom exceeding i inch the 

 SZ^l^ ^^Tt r^^-^^*^^ uppersurface usually more or feslroughenel 

 witk sample or stellate hairs, the under surface white with dense white hairs. 



fn^/Ji !f • l' n'7 ^^^'^•^^''* ''^"^^ *^^ ^^^ll'^r branches, the upjer ones 

 Mersey River, St. Paul's River ; also in Victoria and New Zealand. Fl. Nov. 



2. SPYRIDIUM. 



Ca,lyx-tube adnate to the ovary, only extending beyond in S. uUcinwm, lobes 6. 

 retale 5, hood-shaped, and enclosing the stamens. Ovary wholly inferior 

 d-celled. Fruit a capsule, crowned by the persistent calyx-lobes. ' 



The genus is extra-tropical Australian. 

 Leaves proportionately broad. 



Leaves under j- inch, smooth above. 



Slender. Leaves white beneath I. S. serpiilaceum. 



Wiry. Leaf margins recurved A. S. lawrencii. 



Leaves usually exceeding j inch. 



Leaves hairy above, veins much impressed ... 2. S. parvifolium. 

 Seldom hairy above, veins but slightly impressed 3. S. obovatum. 

 Leaves narrow, margins recurved. 

 Flowers in dense terminal heads. 



Floral leaves broad, white 6. S. vexillifemm. 



Floral leaves normal ... 6. S. eriocephalum. 



Flowers mostly solitary 1 . S. ulicinum. 



I. S. SBEPILLACEDM, F. V. M. A small, slender, twiggy, ascending under- 

 shrub, seldom more than a few inches high. Leaves obovate, white beneath, 

 mostly about f inch long. Flowers in small very compact heads, with persistent 

 brown scarious bracts intermixed. Calyx about 1 line long, densely hairy on the 

 outer surface. Disk slightly raised above the ovary, lining the short tube and 

 forming a ring under the lobes. Cryptandra ohcordata, Hook. 



Tamar River, Swansea, Spring Bay ; also found in Victoria. Fl. Nov.-Dec. 

 2. S. PAEVIFOLIUM, F. V. M. Brect, with numerous slender branches, covered 

 with soft hairs. Leaves obovate or orbicular, very blunt or abruptly terminating, 

 from \-\ inch long, the margins usually recurved, the veins much impressed 

 on the upper and prominent on the lower surface. Flowers closely sessile, in 

 little heads, ntermixed with short brown bracts. Calyx about i line long, very 

 hairy. Disk v iry prominent over the ovary, and almost concealing it. Capsule 

 completely sunk. Cryptandraparvifolia, Hook. ; C. hookeri, F. v. M. 



Tamar River and Bass Straits ; also in New South Wales, Victoria, and South 

 Australia. Fl. Dec. 



Var. molle. Softly hairy all over. Cryptandra mollis. Hook. Bass 

 Straits. 

 3. S. UBOVATXJM, B. An erect, much-branched shrub, of variable habit, usually 

 3-8 feet high. Leaves obovate or nearly obcordate, about \ inch long, margin 

 slightly recurved, under surface densely tomentose, upper surface smooth. 

 Flowers usually few, in small compact terminal heads. Disk prominent, 

 undulate. Cryptandra obpvata, H 



East Coast, Port Esperance, Brown Mt., near Campania; &c. Fl. Oct. 



